Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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"EVA again, yes,-­
Cooper
Yes , I think this zero g airplane plane is well
worthwhile for a specific mission, especially mis­
sion training. But so far, as just in general.. .
I don ' t bel ieve it's particularly worthwhile.
Well , it is worthwhile like Pete said, that if a
man hasn't ever made a f l ight before a~d never ex­
perienced zero g, certainl y good to f~niliarize
him.
Conrad
Yes, I agree with you on EVA .
14.17 Flight Plan Training
Cooper
Okay, f l ight plan training.
Well , we never did
really have much time to do any real f1ight plan
t raining, other than-­
Conrad
Yes, the only thing that we were invol'red in really
was the REP and how it was going to go ,
We l et
Jerry Jones l ay out the rest of it without us really
putting much effort into it. There rnally wasn ' t
a heck of a l ot we coul d do along that line.. .
Cooper
And I think for long missions this rea:.-time thing
is going to go, is going to have to go on, many
changes to be made so I 'm not sure that the over..-all
mission needs training.. . I think maybe you might just
run spot portions of it on the time-critical of course-­